Category: Social media

Are you using social media in the best way? I’m not sure I am but I do try my best to learn fast and become better at connecting with others. I want to use social media for daily learning, meaningful conversations and building lasting connections. In this category, I share some of the insights and advances I make as I try to get better at leveraging social media professionally.

Heraclitus was wrong when he declared that “the only thing that is constant is change“. Change is no longer a constant, because the rate of change has changed. More importantly, change is not a constant because we have renewed our view of change and innovation.

Recent events have reminded us that privacy lost cannot be regained. After the hacks of the Democratic party, with the GDPR coming up as one of the biggest challenges in our industry privacy has become a hot topic. The surveillance society keeps gaining momentum. Both little brother and big brother…

When I wrote about the fail fast fallacy, Gene Hughson and Casimir Artmann replied on their blogs: “the need for design” and “fail is not an option“. We decided to create a video together to get a more lively discussion going. Gene asked us how well our joint video was…

We’re running a little friendly contest in Capgemini where our experts describe how using social media has worked for them. I felt this was interesting enough to share with a wider audience so here you go.

So far, I have done three public hangouts with friends in different places. I’ve created a playlist with all of them for your convenience.
At this time, there are three YouTube videos in the playlist, one for each of the hangouts I’ve done so far. You will find two videos where I discuss agile and lean contracts with Jacopo Romei and one video where I discuss agile retrospectives with Mario Lucero.

The playlist will be expanded with each future hangout. Will my next hangout be with you? Let me know and we’ll set it up. 🙂

Ever since I started blogging properly – over ten years ago – it’s been all about text with the exception of a few images. Then, not so long ago, a customer remarked that he never read anything longer than five or so sentences. It was a useful reminder that we…

I recently had the pleasure of meeting with Casimir Artmann and feature as a guest on his “Architecture Corner”. We talked about agile and why it is necessary. Read more here on the blog or watch the video:Continue reading

I’ve started blogging at the Capping IT Off blog. Posts there will be about topics that are off topic for this blog. My first post is about e-health innovation and apps. My conclusion? E-health will be powered by thin, targeted applications built on a stable framework.